Helena Bonham Carter’s “Harry Potter” co-star Tom Felton mentions her in an interview with MTV with some nice words.

“I’ve rarely had an opportunity to work with the evil family,” he said. “I’m working with Helena Bonham Carter, who’s a lovely lady and also a completely scary witch when she wants to be. I’m enjoying working with adult cast tremendously.”

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Two days ago, Johnny Depp attended the Tokyo premiere of “Public Enemies” and a few photos of this have been released. Click on the thumbnails below to view them in full size.

Worst Previews reports that the filming of “Dark Shadows” will begin in September.

During a press junket for “The Young Victoria,” producer Graham King confirmed that Tim Burton’s next project is “Dark Shadows,” a film that will once again re-team Burton with Johnny Depp.

“We’re actually going to shoot that film next September/October with Tim Burton and Johnny,” said King. “We’ve been working on the script a lot, even though he’s working on ‘Alice.’ We’ve been given a script. John August (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Corpse Bride) wrote the first screenplay. We’re making some changes, but the film’s going to be in production, as I say, September or October of next year.”

The new film is based on the cult ’60s supernatural TV show created by Dan Curtis that aired weekdays on ABC, from 1966 to 1971. With over 1,225 episodes, “Dark Shadows” was a highly atmospheric, spooky soap that featured gothic horror staples like vampires, monsters, witches, werewolves, ghosts and zombies.

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TIME got the chance to interview Tim Burton at the MoMA event he and other Wonderland stars attended a couple of days back. Check out the video interview below!

The director Tim Burton doesn’t just make enchantingly loony movies like Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Batman and The Nightmare Before Christmas. He also makes enchantingly loony paintings and drawings, which he’s been scribbling away at since his suitably alienated childhood in Burbank, California.

This week the Museum of Modern Art in New York opened a big show devoted not only to Burton’s films but to those works on paper and in other media. I caught up with him last week in one of the galleries of that show, where we talked on camera about the role of drawing in his own creative processes, artists who influenced him, and whether some of his monsters don’t look a little vulnerable.

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Guardian.co.uk have posted a small article about Tim Burton’s exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art a few days ago and it also features a new picture (click on the image below to view it in full size).

“Is there a doctor here?” asks Tim Burton, feeling his wrist for a pulse, “I think I might be dead.”

That wouldn’t be out of character. But as it happens he is very much alive, standing at a podium in New York’s Museum of Modern Art, where a 700-work retrospective of the director’s joyously ghoulish career is about to open. Burton, who used to play in cemeteries as a child, is blessed with the kind of hair mad scientists have in horror movies, and he has grown the ghost of a goatee. His appearance in a dark, slouchy suit and blue-tinted sunglasses sets off a riot of camera flashes as he thank the curators for “uh… raiding my closets to find things that almost gave me a heart attack”.

The show includes a full-scale waxwork of Edward Scissorhands, the latex cowls worn by Batman, Ed Wood’s angora sweater, Willy Wonka’s headgear and Sweeney Todd’s razors. But before these iconic cinematic items came into being, the creatures of Burton’s imagination were set down on paper – endlessly and colourfully wrought, the bastard children of Ralph Steadman and Henry Moore. There are doodles on blotters and newspaper pages, sketchbooks, Super-8 films using toys as actors. There’s a sketch of Vincent Price drawn by Burton when he was a teenager, and a school English paper in which a check-up with a doctor is described using words like “eerie” and “evil”, with doors creaking open and a 100-year-old nurse. Visiting MoMA now is like tumbling down a rabbit hole into someone’s weird yet remarkably consistent mind.

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An article posted on Financial Time’s style section discusses how Tim Burton has influenced today’s fashion with his art.

It is a paradox of fashion that the film director Tim Burton, a man who regularly lands on worst-dressed lists along with his partner and muse Helena Bonham Carter; a man often excoriated for his matted hair and onion-peel layers of clothes, is also one of the most aesthetically influential film directors currently working, at least as far as that self-same fashion industry is concerned.

Indeed, says Kate Mulleavy, one half of the Rodarte design team, “I’m hard pressed to think of someone who works creatively and is not inspired by Tim Burton. Even if it’s subconscious.”

As to why, the answer is about to be apparent thanks to a Burton retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art that opens on Sunday. The show features only two films (Tim Burton and Tim Burton and The Lurid Beauty of Monsters), focusing instead on the lesser-seen parts of Burton’s process: the notebooks, including the drawings and paintings that begin the whole fantastical process that becomes his celluloid world, as well as a few new pieces created specifically for the exhibition (a 21ft tall, 8ft wide balloon man with a whole bunch of eyes, for example). Also on view is Burton’s rarely seen adaptation of Hansel and Gretel, and works he made when he was still at school.

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MTV had the chance to sit down with the director of Johnny Depp’s upcoming project; “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides”. Johnny has previously been rumored to have signed off the project but this interview may give us a hint on whether it’s true or not.

When “Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides” was announced for a summer 2011 release, fans went wild. Then the project hit rough waters following the departure of studio chief Dick Cook, a big supporter of “Pirates” star Johnny Depp. The Jack Sparrow actor subsequently expressed hesitation about continuing with the series.

Still, the project sails forward. Depp’s not a lock until he signs off on the script, which he hasn’t yet seen, but Captain Barbossa actor Geoffrey Rush told MTV in late September that he’s been told to keep his schedule open for cameras to roll next spring.

And before any of that took place, in midsummer, word emerged that Rob Marshall, director of the Academy Award-winning “Chicago,” is negotiating to direct “On Stranger Tides.” So when MTV’s Josh Horowitz spoke to Marshall at the press junket for his upcoming musical “Nine,” he had to squeeze in a few questions about the status of his work on “Pirates.”

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According to Empire Online, Mia Wasikowska is currently in talks about being cast of a new adaption of Charlotte Brontë’s “Jane Eyre” (one of my favorite books!) as Jane. No official announcement has been made yet.

Reader, she’s in talks to marry him. Mia Wasikowska, about to hit our screens as Alice in Tim Burton’s Alice in Wonderland, is in talks to star with the ace Michael Fassbender in Jane Eyre, a new adaptation of the classic novel.

For those of you who slept through your literature classes, the novel by Charlotte Bronte tells the story of a young governess called Jane who goes to work for the surly and frightening Mr Rochester. Strange noises in the house and odd events seem to point to some sort of haunting or sinister goings-on, but it’s only gradually that the truth becomes clear.

While we’re going to have to wait for Alice to make any call on Wasikowska’s suitability for Jane, we reckon that Fassbender’s a good call for Rochester, with both the ability to be moody and terrifying that’s called for and the charisma to make him nevertheless appealing. Rochester is, after all, one of the iconic (anti)heroes of that period of literature (on a direct line from Mr Darcy to Heathcliff), so you need an actor with a bit of gumption.

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